Living in the Present is SO Yesterday
It’s an occupational hazard of living in the future that analysts can begin to ignore the present – unless we make it a practice to seek it out. Here in the Valley, that can be difficult, when being a week behind the latest version of something the rest of the world hasn’t heard of yet [...]
White Paper Sponsorship and Labeling
My friend Curt Monash has taken Oracle to task for the way it labels its web pages that contain download links for analyst reports, and I took some collateral damage in the process. It was embarrassing to me, but an important discussion, and I thought I ought to share some ideas about the whole issue. [...]
Decoding BI Market Share Numbers – Play Sudoku With Analysts
In a recent post I discussed Oracle’s market share in BI, based on a press-published chart taken from IDC data – showing Oracle coming in second. As often happens in such discussions, I got quite a few direct emails and twitter messages – some in no uncertain terms – about why the particular metric I [...]
Oracle Sets Sights on BI Leadership. Has it Picked the Right Target?
Oracle is not first in BI, and wants to change that – that was the clear message of a well executed, multi-site “real plus virtual” event with top executives showing off the result of a multi-year effort to rationalize and integrate a set of leading but overlapping components into a seamless suite. Oracle Business Intelligence [...]
Include All Comments on Blog? No. But Please – Jump In!
By Merv Adrian on June 3, 2010
I post and respond to all substantive comments. But I’ve had questions from readers who didn’t see theirs. Understandably, they wanted to know why. Here’s how I handle comments: If they are about the content – they go up. Agree, disagree, it’s all good. Dialogue is exactly the point. If they are just “I liked [...]
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